The Prime Minister fielded questions for more than an hour in a Parliamentary debate on Libya. He disclosed how close the rebel-held city of Benghazi came to being “rolled up”, along with the rest of Libya, by Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr Cameron told a packed Commons: “Coalition forces have largely neutralised Libyan air defences and as a result a no-fly zone has effectively been put in place over Libya.
“It is also clear that coalition forces have helped to avert what could have been a bloody massacre in Benghazi. In my view they did so in the nick of time.”
The Prime Minister dismissed claims from John Baron, a back-bench Tory MP, that an Arab-led coalition should have implemented the no-fly zone.